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See full CV at https://sunnyshao.com for more complete list of positions and publications.

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Last updated on 2021-01-18.

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Sunny Shao

Education

PhD. Candidate, Political Science (Mass Behavior)

University of California

Riverside, CA

current - 2016

M.S., Public Policy in Economics

Pepperdine University

Malibu, CA

2015 - 2013

Selected Positions

Researcher & Center Associate

Center for Social Innovation (UCR)

Riverside, CA

current - 2018

  • Design survey and census outreach messaging experiments, and statistically analyze and present datasets using R and MongoDB to stakeholders
  • Independently query, analyze and model both structured and unstructured datasets to measure disparity and social impacts
  • Design and deployed interactive data visualization tools such as data dashboards and mapping tools using R, shiny, ArcGIS and AWS

Researcher

AAPI Data

Riverside, CA

current - 2017

  • Work with local, state, and national organizations on over 130 data consulting projects
  • Program Qualtrics experimental surveys with name-matching algorithms to determine ethnicity from voter files
  • Create the infographic reporting workflow for survey projects using R and Python

Summer Fellow (Survey Design)

Education Pioneer

Los Angeles, CA

2016

  • Worked closely with coordinators, principals and teachers on program evaluations
  • Created stratified weighted sampling surveys to evaluate programs of Camino Nuevo charter school network
  • Designed protocols and methodology for future program evaluations

Data Analyst Intern

SmartAnalyst

Gurgaon, India

2012

  • Interviewed thoracic oncologists in Japan and China for pharmaceutical clients, who are on phase II trials of non-small cell lung cancer drugs
  • Translated three-way phone meetings between client, SmartAnalyst and Chinese thoracic oncologists
  • Crowdsourced a list of thoracic oncologists through medical journals

Selected Projects

Geographic Profiles, Racial Data

shinyApp + AWS hosting

N/A

current - 2020

Asian American Voter Survey (Experimental Design & Name-match algorithms)

AAPI Data, APIAVote & AAAJC

N/A

2020 - 2018

Experiment on Inland Empire Census 2020 Outreach Messages by Census Tracts

Center for Social Innovation, UC Riverside

Riverside, CA

2020